VVIPs at National Day Parade

For the first time the heads of govt of Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei were sitting in the front seats outside City Hall to watch our National Day Parade. This is a good sign of improving relations with our neighbours. And the minister given the task to make the VVIPs comfortable and felt welcome is non other than our Emeritus Minister Chok Tong. And he was coveniently seated next to Mahathir to make Mathathir feel Singapore wanted good relations with him and with Malaysia.

Here is a pic of the close relationship between Singapore and Malaysia and Chok Tong and Mahathir at City Hall on 9 August 19.

Oops, the words above the photo was inserted by some jokers, dunno who.  But it was all in jest. Think Mahathir and Chok Tong would not mind. If they do, I would remove the pic. There were other interesting and cheeky quibbles circulating in the social media like whatsapp and others.

Relac lah. Watching the NDP was meant to be entertaining and fun, like going to a big concert. Smile please.

Singapore bigger or Malaysia bigger

Below is a post credited to a Malaysia author. I hope no one is going play victims of racial or national stereotyping and create a video to attack anyone with vulgarity. Relax man, this is our National Day man. Sssssshhhhh, have another one to post tomorrow.

Today is Singapore's National Day, so it's time for some comparisons.

Their dollar is bigger, our houses are cheaper

Our food is better, their food marketing is better

We argue about religion, they argue about being diligent

We fight over khat, they cut ahead

Our country is bigger, their country is safer

We have the natural resources, but why the hell are they richer?

Cos corruption they're more clean, who cares, we're more "holy"

Our politics is sex videos, their politics is LKY's house

We go there to work, they come here to enjoy

Their airline flies high, our airline loss high

They nourish city trees, we butcher city trees

We have comedy king Harith, they have comedy queen Kumar

Majulah Singapura is original, Negaraku was copied

We both claim chicken rice, but hello, it's actually from Hainan

We have squash champ Nicol, they have swim champ Schooling (damn, he was from

Malaysia actually)

They work like crazy, we work like maybe

We have cheaper cars, they have better transport

We wanna charge them more for water, they say nevermind-la... can drink toilet

water

They want to expand, we say no sand

We were one country, now we're different worlds, first and third

Ummm... did I get anything wrong? Miss anything out? :)

PS. If any uptight people complain that this is sensitive or make a police report, I would gladly apologise and remove this post.

And Selamat Hari Raya Haji to our Muslim brothers and sisters.

RIP Google, here comes HarmonyOS from Huawei

Trump has officially killed Google and Android. Huawei has launched its own operating system HarmonyOS for all its handphones. This is a very powerful and versatile OS and can be used with many other platforms like cars, ipad, digital watchs, TV etc etc. This would mean that all Chinese handphone makers would be switching to Huawei HarmonyOS. The Chinese market would be closed to Google totally The African market and the Indian market are also using Huawei's OS. The rest of the world would follow suit except for North America, the USA.

To the average handphone users, whatever OS is transparent to them and it would not matter much and using Huawei would only mean that they are getting a better and cheaper system. For the sophisticated users, HarmonyOS is much superior than Android and they know and would switch to Huawei by choice.

Samsung would switch to Huawei for its China market for no better reason than convenience as all the Chinese users would be using HarmonyOS. Huawei could deliver the final blow by offering HarmonyOS for free or at a nominal fee to Samsung and also to Apple. What is there left for Google?

Google would become the IT dinosaur of modern technology overnight. It would be buried by its own weight.

Thank you Donald Trump, for delivering this deadly blow to Google and its Android OS.

PS. Apple's share of the mobile phone market is only 10%. Samsung is 23%. China's Huawei and Oppo took the top 2nd and 3rd spots in worldwide shipment of the equipment, taking 18% and 9.5% respectively.  If all the Chinese handphones are added, they took more than 60% of the world market. If Samsung goes HarmonyOS, together they would tak a whooping 83% of the market share.

Petition to Singapore Athletes

Hi everyone,

I just signed the petition "Fellow Masters Athletes: Petition to Singapore Athletics" and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.


The purpose of this petition is to stop Singapore Masters Athletes, SMA, an affiliate of World Masters Association, WMA, to impose unacceptable regimentation on senior masters athletes to attend compulsory centralised training or else not allowed to participate in WMA competitions like the World Masters and Asian Masters competitions, the latter will be held in Kuching this December.


SMA's requirement is that the masters athletes must attend 75% of their centralised training, held twice a week. No country in the world imposed this on their masters athletes.

Not only that the seniors, 60s, 70s and 80s and above did not have the time, neither would they have the energy and vitality to attend such trainings that the WMA does not required. Participation in WMA events is already a great achievement for the seniors. We are amateur athletes, not young professionals that do this for a living. 

This whole centralised training is simply a CRAZY idea from the unthinking.

Our goal is to reach 100 signatures and we need more support. You can read more and sign the petition here:

http://chng.it/b554gCJrJH

Thanks!

Redbean

Evil Empire planting the seed of destruction

The Evil American Empire is putting pressure on its Asian allies to allow them to plant American intermediate range nuclear missiles in their soil. The Americans claimed that the Russians were cheating in the INF treaty. Holy cow, the Russians are cheating the Americans too. Honest Americans never cheat anyone or anything except the CIA according to Pompeo, ‘We cheat, we lie and we steal’. Remember that?

In reality it is to protect the American Empire and to control their so called allies. The Americans wanted these allies to allow the Americans to set up missile bases in their countries. The location of American missiles to within striking range of China and Russia would extend and expand the reach of the Evil Empire in a war with these two countries. These are offensive weapons of mass destruction.

What does this mean to the American allies? It means that not only the American missiles can strike at China and Russia, the Chinese and Russian missiles would also be able to reach these countries making them primary targets when war breaks out and increasing the need for American protection. The move would mean that the Evil Empire would gain in many ways while their allies would lose in many ways.

Australia, the staunch American ally, the white country in Asia, has officially rejected this request from the Americans. They know that having American missile bases in Australia would mean Australia would also be targeted as number one priority by China and Russia just like Japan and South Korea. Australians are too smart for that. Why would they want to invite Chinese and Russian missiles flying into their territory? China has officially warned the US that deploying these missiles in China’s neighbourhood is unacceptable and China would respond, China would not sit idly by.

South Korea, a semi colony of the evil Empire also rejected the American pressure to place intermediate range nuclear missiles in their land.  What about little USAs?

Would there be silly Asian or Asean country eager to host American nuclear missile bases in their land and become top priority target of Chinese and Russian missiles? Would any silly Asian or Asean country volunteer for this role, or begging for it?